About No Tax on Tips Calc
No Tax on Tips Calc is a free calculator for one narrow job: telling a tipped worker what the 2025–2028 federal tips deduction is worth to them, whether their state follows it, and whether this week’s paycheck met the tipped minimum wage.
Who we are
The site is written and maintained by the No Tax on Tips Calc Editorial Team, an independent publisher that runs a small group of single-purpose calculators on government formulas. There is no named author because no single person’s credentials stand behind the numbers — the primary sources do, and every figure on the site links to the statute, regulation or agency notice it came from. We are not a tax preparer, a law firm, a payroll company or a government agency, and we are not affiliated with the IRS, Treasury, the Department of Labor or any state.
Why it exists
When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act created the tips deduction, most explanations stopped at “up to $25,000.” The questions servers, bartenders, stylists and drivers actually asked were sharper: does the deduction shrink for me, does my state honor it, do I still owe Social Security, is my job on the list, and is my employer paying the right cash wage? Those answers depend on the filing status, the income, the state and the date — so we built a tool that computes them instead of an article that generalizes.
How it is paid for
It isn’t, beyond the publisher’s own time and hosting. There are no ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored placements, no lead forms and no third-party trackers. The site records anonymous page events in its own database so we can see whether the calculator works for people (see privacy); it never records what you type.
What we will and won’t do
We will show our arithmetic, cite the primary source beside each figure, date every verification, say “not yet published” when an agency has not announced a rate, and fix errors quickly when readers report them. We won’t estimate a rate an agency has not published, present an approximation as exact, or tell you how to file. For a filing decision, use the official form instructions or a qualified preparer; for a wage claim, contact the agency named on your state page.
Read how the numbers are produced in the methodology, how we verify and correct them in the editorial policy, and every source we rely on in the source list. To report a problem, use the corrections form.